The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.